2020-2021 Grant Recipients
Northern Arizona University Foundation
Indigenous American Poetry Writers Series
Northern Arizona University looks to honor the generations of indigenous people that have lived for millennia in the place that the school sits by recognizing the contemporary work they do and supporting art and attentiveness to place through poetry. NAU will invite Native American poets to read at NAU in several of their advanced programs. This program will enhance and continue the tradition of NAU's creative writing program working to support Indigenous American students.
Blank Verse Films
Dark Verse Film Series
The Dark Verse film series will adapt this engaging brand of poetry into short films aimed at engaging new poetry fans. The films will share a unique visual style and sardonic accents. Through the dark fun of poetry's great masters, this program aims to win a new audience of poetry for the digital age.
Still Waters in a Storm
The Quixote Project
The Quixote Project is a long-form translation and theater undertaking by students at the Bushwick one room schoolhouse Still Waters in A Storm, in which students ages 6-18—children of refugees and immigrants from Mexico and South America—read and translate Don Quixote from the Spanish original to retell the story as their own, re-imagining the story of an old man in Spain in the late 1500s as a story of Spanish-speaking immigrant children living in Brooklyn today. The project is based in an intersectional, anti-racist framework, and is aimed at empowering our students through cultural tools and resources.
Santa Fe Girls School
Poetry Workshops
Joan Logghe, the third Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, conducts poetry workshops with the students at the Santa Fe Girl’s School. The school has embraced Joan and her participation as poet-in-residence. Joan and her students have published 17 volumes of poetry and artwork since the program was introduced in 2000. Poetry has the ability to empower the young women in the program and help them to find their voices at a time when social pressure is at its peak.
Chicago Review
Special Issue
Chicago Review will publish a special issue on the poet, translator, ethnographer, and linguist Jaime de Angulo. This special issue reconsiders the life and work of de Angulo as a poet and translator, particularly of Native American oral tradition during the twentieth century.
The Center for Contemporary Arts
Poetry Project
The CCA Poetry Project will identify and spotlight both established and emerging poets with input from local poets, writers and readers. CCA will connect their audience of more than 75,000 people a year with poets and poetry showcased in the cinema and gallery. CCA will also seek to work with institutional partners, including schools, not-for-profit organizations, bookstores and other entities that will help expand the program's impact.
White Pine Press
Anthology of Contemporary Hungarian Poetry
This project will support the translation and editing of an anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry. There is currently no anthology of this kind in English. The anthology will include 16 poets, half female and half male in order to represent a gender balance unavailable in many other anthologies.
Creative Santa Fe
The Future of Art
CrSF will present The Future of Art 2.0. The event will address the growing concerns about the future of Santa Fe's creative economy by identifying barriers and under-recognized arts industries and innovatively collaborating to address them. The program will showcase local poets to broaden the poetry audience of Santa Fe and demonstrate poetry's contribution to the cultural fabric of our community.
City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department
Santa Fe Poet Laureate
The Foundation provides the honorarium for the City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate provides recognition of the literary arts by the City of Santa Fe, offers a platform for interdisciplinary arts, advocates for and raises the visibility of poetry in the community, increases the connection of poets to the public and fosters poetry learning.
Warehouse 508
ABQ Unidos Slam Poetry Project
ABQ Unidos Slam Poetry Project sends poets from the Albuquerque poetry scene into schools and community centers to teach young people how to express their feelings, emotions, beliefs and stories using the art of writing poetry and the spoken word. The Foundation funds poets in the in-school program from September through April. In addition, the Foundation is supporting a workshop for youth to compete in the Green Chile Invitational Youth Poetry Slam in Albuquerque and a team to compete in the National Brave New Voices competition.
Manzano Mountain Art Council
Youth, Art, Music & Culture Outreach Project
The Manzano Mountain Art Council (MMAC) has served its community for over 20 years with consistent general arts, culture and education advocacy. The Youth, Art, Music & Culture Outreach Project strives to offer a safe, welcoming environment where youth are exposed to a variety of artistic mediums. MMAC has incorporated poetry writing workshops and spoken word performances into their programming.
Prison Writes Initiative
Creative Writing Progam
The Prison Writes Initiative is Mississippi’s only liberal arts based educational program for inmates in 13 prisons across the state. Their programs have served all sectors of the Mississippi inmate population: men, women, youth, the elderly and the disabled. After initial support of Poetry Workshops in seven facilities in the Mississippi Delta last year, this year the Foundation will increase it's support to include programming on Death Row and adjacent long-term segregation units at Parchman Farm, Mississippi's largest prison.
